opencart SEARCH by Added Keywords

When customers come to our websites, it does not matter how many products we have or if our price is competitive if they cannot easily fine the product.
      When we create a description, we usually try to use good structure to make it appear we are literate and description flow is appealing to read.
      This sometimes the description content is not adequate to enable finding the product. Keywords would help to enable better searches, but they need to be able to be included in the description search only, not in the display.

      I am developing some functions that allow keywords to be placed after the product description to enable finding the product, but will not be displayed in product description.

A sample is at www.thirskauto.com
A couple of keywords I have inserted in one product for testing are:
  "jasmine"  and  "rosemary" .

Question?
      I have 2 choices to make regarding the keywords. In this sample, when the products are retrieved, the keywords are trunctuated. The other method is to return the keywords with the description but as hidden. Could some of the search engine gurus answer whether this would be considered spam. If so, I need to leave it as it is, keywords trunctuated from description.

Thanks
Brent

Well I think vbulletin forums, and a lot of blogs like engadget.com and such use a "Tags" line below the main post.
And some other blogs like technorati use a tag cloud on the side.

I think some other people on the forums have also mentioned their desire for a tag system. Perhaps wait to get some more feed back from them.

Personally, I think the tag idea is ok, even if you show like 10 of them and then "....." truncate them. Clicking on the words should then yield another search by that keyword. but clicking on the ... should maybe go to a page that shows them all?

But I don't want to show any tags or keywords, just use the keywords to find my product as per the example. All I want displayed is the real description. I don't want to resemble a blog, but a real store, which I am.

If the keywords are not visible, do you think search engine like goggle would consider is spam even though it is relevant to the product.

I guess the concept is I call a pipe wrench a pipe wrench, while the boys down under call it a spanner.
Whichever way it takes for my customer to find it, I will call it a pipe wrench in my description, but if they type spanner in the search, I want them to find my product.
I added spanner as keywords to several pipe wrenches.
try it.

Have a chat with david, who put up this post. It is a starting point for what you want.

bthirsk wrote: But I don't want to show any tags or keywords, just use the keywords to find my product as per the example. All I want displayed is the real description. I don't want to resemble a blog, but a real store, which I am.

If the keywords are not visible, do you think search engine like goggle would consider is spam even though it is relevant to the product.

Ah I see, you are referring to Meta Keywords.. then yea, follow the link to David's post. Although David actually stopped creation on it because it is already being added to the next version of OpenCart. But that shouldn't stop anyone from adding their creatiions

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This sounds similar to the search that ebuyer.com has, and I like it.